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contact the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800-974-6006 tty/v. verizon. hello, everybody. i'm beth troutman. welcome to another e digs of "right this minute." we have videos first. a cabby makes a brief pit stop, and we see what he has left behind. the shock and awful video.
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>> the girls fund out it's good to hang around a fisherman's neck. >> and they're hit with pretty bad mud slides. how one lucky reporter got out just in time. and some lakers fans give steve gnash a warm welcome on an l.a. freeway with an amazing handoff. >> we'll get our show started with our first video. >> check out this video of a street in philadelphia. nothing out of the ordinary, you see a cab up the street, pull over, and what cab driver does next is what left the person who posted this video completely enraged. . >> i hope he is checking the
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tire pressure. he drives away and we shee what he left behind. >> he took a crap on a sidewalk in the middle of a neighbor. >> the person that caught it was so made, he called the company, the freedom taxi association, they said it's not my job to clean it up. he then called the police. he took a report, but nobody came out to clean this. so this person is really being active in getting this video out thereto so people see how not cool, to say the least, this is. and the fact that nobody is doing anything to clean it up. >> this is so bizarre to me, you pay a thousands of dollars in fines if your dog poops on the sidewalk, but a human can?
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>> they reached out to the philadelphia parking authority, they identified the driver, and his license was suspended. >> the guy went and picked up people after this. think about paying with a kate car, or giving customers change after this guy just took a dump. cc reports, he used something that looked like a sock. 27 people have been killed in japan from flooding and landslides, and this guy has video from what happened near where he lives. my friend said get out of there. he said there was only a little bit left until the top of the levy. >> so it was near his house, and it was overflowing and this was
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rising and rising. look at this river is absolutely swollen. >> she say that's in his neighborhood, at least one home was destroyed because of the flooding. >> i feel like japan should get a pass for like ten years. they've seen enough destruction. >> that's sometimes the worst part. you're happy the water is going down, but then you see what's left. >> we didn't lose anything, but somebody did lose their house. is there always that mix of emotion, you're happy for yourself, and guilty that you feel happy for yourself. >> i can see what he's saying there. you don't know how to feel. >> an interesting company tear. you're so thankful that you're alive and your house is okay, but you feel bad because so much bad stuff has happened to your friends and neighbors. >> one of the most beautiful and
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huge creatures in the ocean is whale sharks and i love this video. whale sharks in indonesia have figured out to hang out around fisherman's nets and suck the fish out. they learned to just hang out and then gorge themselves. >> are they really sucking them out of the nets? >> yes, they're just vacuuming up the fish they catch. >> i love though brilliant this shark is, that he was so able to adapt to his surroundings. all of these fish are going to fill up my belly. >> they have been known to get caught in some of these nets.
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they are considering trying to modify their nets so sharked in the futu-- sharks don't get cau in the future. >> the people of a small community called johnson's landing in british columbia, have been experiencing some pretty severe mud slides. >>. >> wow. >> oh my gosh. >> that debris, the trees, reached those people really
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quick.this guy you see here, hi is francis -- >> we were there, we would have been wiped out. >> people are still missing and deaths have been reported as a result of this mud slide. the local news caught this footage for their global national forecast. the people on the boat were people that lived in this area. >> i know i should not have just taken the risks, but you can't blame me, i had to try. i thought yesterday we would be able to salvage things once things calm down, and that's not an option now. everything is gone. >> there are people missing. >> i heard nothing about my family other than they were in the house at the time of the avalanche, and from all of the pictures we know they were in the older edition that was under
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ground, and they need to be dug out, and i'm just waiting to know if anybody is alive. >> the eagles are chilling on the deck. >> pam's porch, bringing animals together. >> the story behind eagles, foxes, and cats, next. somebody left a baby on a bench at the smal
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eight time all-time nba star, steve gnash is now with the lakers. a lot of people are made about that. l.a. fans are happy about that. a group of fans happen to give mr. gnash a warm welcome on an l.a. freeway.
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these dudes come across this video, and they trying to give him a beer. >> this is him from the car, we found this video on his twitter. you hear him saying get closer, get closer. you can't condone the safety of this vehicle, but they are successful. i was skeptical at first, how do we know this is even steve nash, but then keep going. >> the fans have been good so far. >> that's definitely him. >> so were we in phoenix. what's cool is a brother of one of the guys in the car got a
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reverse video. >> funny that it's a car full of bros, and keystone light. >> maybe this is a updated version of grey pupon. woman wipes out on water slide. a few months ago, i brought you guys this video. the fox, the cat, and the eagles
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all hanging out on this woman's porch. the snow has now melted, and pam, the woman whose porch we have seen in this video, kept the cameras rolling. and it's not just one eagle, there's three this time. this one is far more interactive than the last one we saw. >> he gets up there, and is like -- >> pam's porch, bringing people together. >> are you guys like best friends or something? >> he is flapping his winds, he g -- wings, he is a little too close. and mr. fox is down on the ground, and this is her cat, george. >> this needs to be a children's
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book. >> the cat shows it's dominance, and then the fox decides to check out mr. eagle. >> all right, we can all kill each other, so truce? >> obviously she has been dealing with this interesting relationship for months. >> maybe this is in alaska, this is bizzaro alaska where nobody hunts. >> try to watch this video without flinching. >> what? >> how does she -- >> it went around and around and around. >> this is a woman who can do pretty insane things with her -- in fact, i think there are no bones in that -- >> she should get a trophy for that.
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you have a weird -- >> the weirdest -- >> she got the weirdest video of the day. >> and i did flinch. >> we're not going to show you the video, so see it, go to our website on rightthisminute.com. surprise, the man is home from service -- >> see the welcome home where she loses control. it's a good thing. is this little one -- >> she's like the little engine that could. >> see why we're calling here that on "right this minute." the first time i saw fios it was absolutely amazing. for years and years we had to put up with cable. once we got fios it was like somebody like took our computer and shook all the junk out of it. [ male announcer ] don't settle for the same old cable technology. switch to a verizon fios triple play
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here at "right this minute," we can't get enough of these. this video from the welcome home blog. another fantastic surprise for the soldier coming home. he convinced his wife he wasn't going to be able to come home at all for any kind of r and r for any reason. and she had been bugging him to come home. >> she lost it. >> it's like a screen door with the tab that's hard to get your finger on. >> the woman at the door is this
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soldier's mom. the woman you hear sobbing in the background is his wife, his name is rebecca. she was on her knees, head bent down. >> you son of a [ bleep ]. i can't believe you did that to me! >> that's the best part because she's like i've been bugging you to come home. this was shot around mother's day, but they just uploaded this. people are loving it because of this genuine reaction. surveillance video from mall
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security, somebody left a baby on a bench in the mall. the baby is crying, people are walking by and they're really concerned, but they're frightened by what they find. our buddy jack is behind this video. he took a baby carrier. he took a camera and a baby crying voice -- >> that's not funny, that's just scary. >> that's a good prank. >> imagine that, you're expecting a trying baby, and it's an old man's head. >> and we saw pranks like this in the past, and people gets mad. he gets two women pretty good.
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jack has to come out and comfort her, and jack always seems to push it just far enough. the mall cops get involved here, and they're buzz kill reaction. >> you can't have any fun on our property, you have to leave. in spanish we have a saying that means small but spicy, and i think that's what little kitten is. he is taking on one big old doberman. >> look at the dog showing restraint and kindness and love for this kitten. >> what a good dog. >> what that was saying?
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>> i love it. >> he is trying to piet the cat in half. >> he is saying listen, this is what i will do to you. >> the cat is so cute, the dog is so sweet, and they take great care of that dog's teeth. >> i could kill you -- a video for people who love star wars. >> i would be one of those people. [ dog growls, barks ] bring your dog to work day... not our best idea. [ barking ] george! stop it! stop. oh. it was a nice thought. [ male announcer ] some business decisions are better than others. the best decision is switching to verizon.
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good afternoon. i'm meteorologist mike masco, a very hot shot downtown. nothing happening. let's get you over to temperatures. 98 in town. d.c. shares that 98. it's 99 in frederick. the heat and humidity combined making or heat indexes between 101 and 100 toward the eastern shore so a very hot afternoon. excessive heat advisory. that has been reissued for tomorrow. we have the scowed red alert. heat indexes expected to rise tomorrow well near 100 degrees. 359 for the rest of the evening
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and a really hot afternoon once again. we're watching a few things on the radar, clouds to the south. it's this cold front that will drop south and bring us the chance for severe weather. we'll talk about that coming up next at 5. dangling. this little 3-year-old has a lesson for us. you can achieve anything you set your mind to. this is 3-year-old sofia, and she is setting out to do a ninja climb up the door frame. >> she's like the little british engine that could. >> that's high enough. >> hey! don't bang your head. >> her dad says she is anxiously
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awaiting her fourth birthday so she can take funk lessons. >> her dad peter says she's anxiously awaiting her birthday, so that she can take kung foo classes. >> she's going to be a ninja, that's perfect for her. >> she's well on her way. >> she's the world's cutest ninja. >> steven, you brought us the story with jeremy mcdonald who had a conversation with himself 20 years ago. >> so somebody, of course, made a parody using starwars characters. >> my face melted off.
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>> never mind that for now -- >> i can have it? >> you already have it. it's literally the same one. >> in the original video, it was a car wars video. >> are you still using the force? >> no. >> jeremiah made a cameo in this video. >> i'm glad, because it was his idea. >> can you say hi to me in the future? >> i don't watch star wars, but i know people hate jarjar bigs. >> i don't watch star wars, but i know people hate jarjar bigs. >> i'm one of those people. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com
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tonight the crews are trying to repair a water main break. >> we'll take a look at the impact it's having. >> i'm mike masco. we're getting close to the threat of severe weather. we'll have the latest coming up. baltimore county were at the scene of an electrical fire in dundalk. one person was take tonight hospital with heat exhaustion. it started at 8201 eastern boulevard. firefighters tell us

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